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I’m sure that some of you are wondering, what does Emerson look like? And I’m sure that some of you are also wondering, what the heck, bro? It’s not Saturday! Yes, yes I know, I messed up again with not posting yesterday!

On Friday night I fell asleep, fully-clothed and everything and slept that way apparently all night until Emmy woke up at 6:30 this morning and Kayleigh kicked me out of bed to go take care of her.

So there I was, ready to go, in my clothes and everything already and I went to take care of the baby. I once thought, oh, dude, your post is supposed to be done in like, twenty minutes! and then I said screw it and it can wait until tomorrow!

So we had a good day yesterday; Emmy went to the Farmer’s Market with her Meme and Papa Steve and Kayleigh and I went to have coffee downtown and then went to the Strip for a bit. But anyway, on to the main point of this here post: why we don’t post Emmy’s face online.

So we don’t for a number of reasons.

1. We want the decision to be hers and fully hers. We want her to be the first to really decide to put her face out there for all to see and I think it’s great that she will be able to decide that. We don’t want to do it and then have Emerson for some reason wish to stay fully off the internet someday, I don’t know.

2. It can be dangerous in many ways, including the fact that once you put your child’s picture on there, it can be viewed forever and can be saved and copied pretty easily and then reposted from there. Imagine whose hands your babies picture could fall into? And from there it’s pretty easy to find a name and, if you’re good enough, more information.

3. There are some creeps on the internet and it sounds dumb, but when you look at facts and watch shows about pedophiles, it’s not far out there that your child’s photo could be misused and abused in ways you’d never want, so, yeah. Kayleigh doesn’t even like people looking at Emmy in public, so the internet is a no-no.

4. It can be embarrassing and potentially harmful to your child in the future. Imagine when they go to school and their classmates can search for their name and pull up some pictures they’d never want anyone else to see up from their past. Think about being a child once and if you’d had photos like that of yourself on the web, would you have been happy? If not, don’t post stuff like that! Why would you do that to your poor kid!

5. We want to keep her all to ourselves. Oh, and I guess our families too. And friends, our friends can see her face too. Or… anyone that wants to meet her in person! We’ll even video chat you! Just no pictures can be posted.

We love Emmy and just want her to decide for herself, when she’s ready (and when we’re ready, haha) to upload the first picture of her beautiful face! She’s too cute anyway, she’d break the damn World Wide Web.